Like 6 years ago I got really good gigs, like every other proposal lead to a job. The last years, whenever I tried, I was just writing proposal after proposal

Like 6 years ago I got really good gigs, like every other proposal lead to a job. The last years, whenever I tried, I was just writing proposal after proposal and either I was to expensive or I heard nothing. Maybe it's me, but my impression was that it got way harder to land proper paid jobs.